11 December 2013

VIDEO: Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar on "Alpha Males" and "Gay Agenda"

In the latest edition of "Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down": Celebrated rapper and MC Lord Jamar—best known for his work with the socially "conscious" pioneering hip hop group Brand Nubian in the 1990s—continues to rant on hyper masulinity and gay men ...

"This hip-hop s**t was made by masculine Black and Latino males. This is the alpha male s**t,” said Jamar on VLAD TV. "Not even the beta male who they’re pushing at us now. Your Drakes and your f**king Kendrick Lamars and all these softer type of dudes."

Radio host Star agreed. "Don’t promote the gay agenda as if it has more merit than the f**king Black Holocaust,” said Star. "I have no problems with gays—God bless you—but just remember the people that got you to this point were hosed, beaten, lynched, castrated and set a blaze. Nothing, with the exception of the Jewish Holocaust, surpasses the Black struggle."

Of course. Because "Black" and "gay" are mutually exclusive. "Gays" could never be Black, right? Right.

Lord Jamar caused a huge controversy when he recently criticized Macklemore's marriage equality anthem "Same Love." Jamar also claimed that former radio host Mister Cee had "no place" in hip-hop after Cee was arrested for soliciting a male sex worker and "outed" for soliciting a cross-dressing video blogger. SMDH. Didn't you like Jamar so much better when he was a "Five Pecenter" and serving homomerotic thug realness on Oz?

So these ignorant, ill-educated hip-hop pieces of urban trash believe the Jewish Holocaust surpasses the Black Struggle? They have no self-worth nor inclination of the gay Black and Latin MEN (& WOMEN) who also created & contributed to the culture of hip-hop. HE, LORD JAMAR, I SO UNCONSCIOUS!

Another has been rapper talking about things he doesn't really know about. The Jewish holocaust in Germany was worse than the centuries long enslavement, colonial exploitation, Jim Crow and other crimes committed against blacks? I don't think so. And gay blacks were still subject to the same treatment if not worse treatment. If he thinks there haven't gay bruhs in hip hop since it began he needs a reality check. Gay bruthas need to call dumb @$$3s like this out on their bull***t

Jews were killed during hilters reign Blacks were killed and tortured for over 200 years how can you possibly say Jews had it worse? You go in for a job interview at Walmart and the Jew will get hired before a black person. Nobody follows Jews around high end stores like they do blacks. This guy is so off base when it comes to race, homosexuality and everything about life.

Why do we have to play who had it worse? Also what about Native Americans? I guess their Holocaust doesn't count. Finally people who were black and gay and way more hardcore than this fool participated in the black struggle. Do Bayard Rustin or James Baldwin ring a bell?

So sad the contributions of the many gay men and women continue to be forgotten, ignored and dismissed. Star and Jamar have allowed their personal politics to revise history in a way that supports and validates their views. This is a dangerous kind of mindset that sadly enough dominates our country in the social and political arena. And how is Drake and Kendrick Lamar soft? And if they are why is this inclusiveness viewed somehow as a dismantling of hip hops foundation? Just one more case of men clinging to an illusion of masculinity that has no ground to stand on in a world that no longer is lock and step with patriarchal fantasy.